Poland is Simply a Fruit Lovers' Paradise!

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During the warm months in Poland, it's impossible to go hungry. Just a five minute walk through the countryside will yield lots of delicious fruits! Today we discuss 12 of our family favorites.
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[@maciejkania100]

How could anybody not to like this channel and your films??? I think you are absolutely great! Good luck and take care!

[@moneyluser5711]

Ok, that's enough for me. My fav fruits + Poles actually care about their culture and traditions. Time to start learning Polish :D

[@nocnydrwal9499]

I jak tam twój polski ? Robisz postępy ? :)

[@elzbietabonthrone6584]

THANK YOU! You're doing a great job! You're not only "selling" our country to others , you are reminding me of my own town and my own country I'm living out for years though. I enjoy your adventure with Poland and my favourite language - I love the humour you "fish out" of my mother tounge...love you for every bit of joy and laughter. Lots of love to you and your both families (!Polish and Americans) and happy Spring and Summer time.

[@leonardlucian4175]

you prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know a trick to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb lost my password. I love any tricks you can give me.

[@alejandrokenzo4493]

@Leonard Lucian Instablaster :)

[@leonardlucian4175]

@Alejandro Kenzo Thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@MeDorota1]

Watching KZbin vlogs, I just discovered your productions. As a Pole living in Canada, I can admit that you are a very penetrating observer. I do not know if someone has already told you this, but I think that this love for Poland is reciprocated back and forth. This is due to your positive attitude towards reality and sensitivity to the nuances wich giving life a flavor. You can teach not one Pole about real patriotism. Thank you for that.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Krzysztof Konefal thanks sooo much for your kindhearted words

[@aneta5196]

Yes! For someone that’s born and raised in Canada, I’m absolutely jealous that you get to live there! I’ve spent about a dozen summers there visiting family, and it’s where I feel most at home! 🥰

[@agiagiagi6553]

When I saw wild strawberry I had tears in my eyes 🙁 that I miss the most .... 🤔 and good homemade salceson 😋

[@marudzki]

About cherries. We have white (in fact light yellow), red and black cherries, in Poland called 'czereśnia'. However, they differ from a very similar fruit known as 'wiśnia'. There are a number of different kinds of it. My grand-grand-grand-father had a farm south east from Lwów, now Ukraine. One night he dreamed that his place will not be Poland anymore, so with couple of friends, they organise a sell off their farms and they move to Podlasie, the region east from Warsaw. From his place in Ukraine he brought a kind of wiśnia, which is black, very aromatic, a bit bitter sweet and juicy. My dad planted twenty of them around the house, which he had built. All my childhood was climbing wiśnia trees in the summertime.

[@bittermochi259]

Amazing story!

[@mobo8074]

A poza tym jest jeszcze agrest, winogrona z odmian odpornych na mróz, arbuzy, kiwi.... Możesz zrobić odcinek o ogródkach działkowych (nie wiem czy Amerykanie mają pojęcie że coś takiego istnieje, więc dobrze by było wyjaśnić zasady funkcjonowania). Weź kamerę i pójdź na spacer po terenie ogródkow. Rosjanie na przykład sie zachwycają ;)

[@maciejszymanski2386]

W UK niektórzy ludzie stawiają szklarnie na backyardzie i sadzą własne pomidorki i ogórasy. Są też "allotments", czyli wydzielone ogrody działkowe, ale nie jest tego wiele. To raczej hobby niż sposób zdobywania żywności dla siebie czy zarabiania kasy. Choć znam jednego, co regularnie sprzedaje swoje warzywa na pobliskim targu. Nazywają go "George Plenty Onions". Ale to Serb z pochodzenia, więc ma te przyzwyczajenia z Eastern Europe :)

[@5kamon]

@oxazepan + głóg, dereń i róża

[@marcelszot8795]

No i mirabelki

[@saitotokugawa6509]

Czarny bez, orzech włoski i laskowy, bieluń, mięta, melisa, topinambur

[@jesman3]

Blackberries are about the only fruit i can find growing wild around me in the US. I love the idea of picking wild fruit and eating it.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Jesse Nelson So we invite you for a serious fruit hunt! It really is amazing! PS the dating topic is coming soon :-)

[@KrissowskiM]

Love My Poland! You forgot about ‘jeżyny’!!!

[@axolotlmex9546]

Moja babcia zawsze mówiła: "Nie jedz z krzaka bo to lisy obszczały".

[@monikas4656]

AksolotlMEX...owocow z dolnej czesci krzaka nie jemy zostawiamy dla malych zwierzatek, a z tym lisem to zes palnol jak lysy jajami o beton, lisy nie sikaja do gory, jemy owoce z wyzszej czesci krzaka.

[@alexlmc3171]

I love your comment!! LMAO !!!

[@AgentZuo]

Mi też tak babcia mówiła, a tylko po to żebym nie spędziła w malinach całego dnia.

[@SENSEOFLIBERTY]

Babcia sabotażystka! ;-)

[@tomkusz3741]

hahahahahahhaah!

[@FEXPL]

Your Chanel is great don't worry about bad comments keep up great Chanel

[@LoveMyPoland]

Great to hear that :) Thanks!

[@EyeScreamPL]

So there are bad comments under his videos? Naaa, just idiots with worthless yapping :D "yapping" equals not a "comment" ; ]

[@mateuszbartosik1507]

This ground feeds us. I watched this video and now I'm thinking how many things you didn't mention. Dzika róża, owoce bzu, jarzębina, głóg... To be honest, I usually can't name 20% of wild fruits I find in wild, there's so much of them :) You can also make a video on herbs growing in the wild, mushrooms, agriculture, dożynki. Oh, there's a great idea: make a video on woda brzozowa (birch tree water/juice) :) Good luck

[@regeman100]

there is also: -elderberry -cranberies -rosehip -gooseberry and many others but i cant remember at the moment

[@TheANNAKATARZYNA]

Mieszkam w Niemczech i najbardzij brakuje mi wlasnie natury!! Na wycieczki rowerowe nigdy nie zabieralismy prowiantu, bo po co! Za kazdym rogiem byly owoce 💝😿 oj brakuje tego..

[@anic131313]

Oh, mój dziadek w swoim małym ogrodzie wyciął czereśnię, gruszę, orzech włoski, papierówkę, wykarczował jeżyny i winogrona, zaniedbał maliny, truskawki i poziomki. Cierpię bardzo. Zostały śliwki, porzeczki i agrest.

[@blakebella2273]

I'm lucky. Living in NY, I am able to get agrest (which you showed, but didn't mention), red and black currents, and occasionaly, porzeczke. The wild strawberries. Yes, Poland does have an abundance of fabulous variety of fruits, and they are simply delicious. Every year, my mother would make tons of jars of different fruit kompots, powidła, syrups, and wine. Nothing like it anywhere. Wish I was back there. Enjoy 😋

[@bababa4275]

The wild fruits are the best and without pesticides.

[@grazynaduda5255]

Poziomki.....#1

[@kku6857]

Yes, indeed. You cannot pick up anything from forests in the Netherlands, while in Poland feel free. Don't forget about mushrooms. Możesz nakręcić filmik o kiszonkach.

[@LoveMyPoland]

k.kunysz grzybki. It's coming! Thanks

[@dothelukaszkillchain8036]

Mushroom is not a fruit it's a vegetable

[@hopin8krzys]

@@dothelukaszkillchain8036 neither

[@Misiulo]

@@dothelukaszkillchain8036 Mushrooms are not even classified as a plants anymore. They are a separate kingdom!

[@r.euginesushilkumar8488]

Love Poland from India 😘

[@krzysztoftyszkowski8770]

Czarny bez - no 1 . NAJZDROWSZY na odporność i na covida. Pozdrawiam.

[@thomaspeacock7248]

When I visited Poland in 2018, the hotel I stayed at in Krakow served black currant juice with breakfast. I loved that! I would have consumed the whole carafe full but thought I’d better share it with my group members. Btw, Georgia peaches are far inferior to those grown in western Colorado!

[@gibbnogra5705]

Coming to Poland 🇵🇱 soon Sir 😊

[@kazimierzspaczynski7401]

Thank You. Szczesc Boze.

[@xMasterDevilx]

Gooseberry is also very popular. In autumn you can also find something, for example hazelnuts or walnuts. Near my house they grow wild :)

[@dawidkujawski3340]

Love My Poland! Did you mention the gooseberry?[agrest]... btw when I was young, I collected a full 15-liter bucket of wild strawberries :) - it took me all day.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Dawid Kujawski no naturally growing agrest in the area. gooseberries!!

[@michalkomorowski3085]

Kolejne sprostowanie powidła robi się ze śliwek!!! Poprzez długie kilkudniowe powolne gotowanie uzyskuje się gęstą "pastę" która jeśli właściwie zrobiona w kamionce przykrytej czystą szmatką może stać nawet rok. Pozdrawiam:)

[@ongvalcot6873]

The blueberries you pick in Poland are actually bilberries. Unlike blueberries they are dark inside and have sharper flavor.

[@MiroslawKoniorczyk]

Also worth mention that you are free to go into almost every forest in Poland as it is public good for everyone.

[@AlphaTVyt]

You should try a "rabarbar" this isn`t a fruit, in fact but in the summer months it is eaten. It is a stalk of a certain plant called (wait for it) Rabarbar. It is eaten by touching the end of the sugar and taking the bite. Not many Poles people know about it, but I am convinced that you will be delighted with the taste.

[@Mahiczna]

Yes!! I love it too

[@utahdan231]

There’s plenty of rhubarb in USA

[@jimbeard2952]

hay man im new in poland love your videos thanks bro

[@34Toro]

Kocham Polskę, ale tak Pan pięknie o niej mówi, że można pokochać ją jeszcze bardziej😍

[@JHA_is_here]

Perfect vlog to convince me even more to come to Poland🇵🇱

[@Alex-kb8uc]

new subscriber from the Philippines, more power to your blogs, godbless 🙏

[@ArtAmol]

Great channel! Fruits you are describing as blueberries are actually Bilberries. There are many blueberries in gardens in Poland, but forest tiny bush producing very little, staining your clothes fruits are Bilberries. Amazing fruits loaded with tons of goods ;). All the best for your family and enjoy Poland :)

[@edku8565]

You are doing fine job. Don't worry about critical comments. Thank you so much.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Thanks!!

[@tomaszsliwa3987]

also Agrest is great :) and very common.

[@ebarteldes]

Have you ever been to South America? Fruit everywhere too, tropics are tropics

[@kamilatarnowska5122]

I know that everything you told is true! In Poland we have so many fuits! Even the wild growing ones that are sold at a ridicoulus price, in comparison for ex. with Italy where I Ilive now. But you forgot the "agrest", gooseberry in english. It's so sweet! My childhood favourite pick from my gandpa garden.

[@mateuszp3886]

As for berries, I recommend the Bieszczady Mountains. You can find unlimited amounts of berries on the pastures.

[@varden9608]

I love it !!!! Gratings from Florida

[@annak3592]

Made me hungry!

[@pacinpm2]

More! I love your series.

[@katarzynamonika2281]

Love this vid! 😍 Love our fruits😍

[@ProfezorSnayp]

Jendym z ciekawych, rzadziej spotykanych owoców, jest świdośliwa. Wygląda podobnie do aronii, ale smakuje jak borówki amerykańskie. Każdy kto raz zasmakuje świdośliwy zapomni o aronii. :D

[@sometalhead]

No gooseberries? Good I miss those. Wish we could get them in the states. Love your videos btw, they're always informative and never too long

[@maciej6811]

The wild strawberrys are called poziomki in poland :)

[@dariuszpogocki9239]

Nie macie w USA porzeczek bo sosny z pięcioma igłami (np. wejmutka lub limba) chorują na tzw. zarazę wejmutkowo-porzeczkową. W Polsce większość sosen jest dwuigłowa.

[@mrcraftsmann]

Lucky you ! What a nice neighbourhood you have ! :)

[@szobione]

Love this movie!!! I live in the middle of Poland in the forest and I have all the forest fruits on my property. I love it. Add to the list cranberries. There is a lot of them here too. Keep on vlogging and welcome to Poland!!!!

[@LoveMyPoland]

I have never found cranberries! I will be on the lookout :) Thanks!

[@szobione]

Well, 20km south of Częstochowa there is a lot of forest, where I live, there is planty of them at the moment. Just the other day I walked with my wife in the forest and there is lots of them everywhere. Yummy! Cheers!

[@dorotaa6933]

Cranberries are fantastic to make a source, for turkey and other meats!

[@jaspi2848]

@@LoveMyPoland boss are the any apple farms in Siedice

[@susanorr7451]

Love your channel; it takes me back to when we lived in Warsaw and I miss it.

[@LoveMyPoland]

Happy to have you as a viewer 😊

[@MagdalenaSlipek]

You speak in a very interesting way and your accent is amazing (that I can understand). Continue your job. I'm going to watch all your films not only because they are interesting but also to improve my english ! :)

[@adamtrojanowski3972]

Ja najbardziej lubię zielony agrest.(Goosberry)

[@ukaszchylak3057]

Super.

[@woodlandleshy3876]

Also try getting your hands on some plum vodka in polish it's called śliwowica It's made from a type of blue plum

[@aleksandrabokus9844]

Zapytaj rodzinę o nalewki. Na przykład aroniówka, czy pigwówka ;)

[@sator666666]

A najlepsze są morwy (mulberry).

[@syncpoland]

very well video , good job, short simply nothing to say more :)

[@SJ_India]

thank you for this video. I really enjoyed and am sad that I couldn't try many of these when I've seen them but had no idea.

[@hubert857]

Now im craving cherry soup

[@asiagrabowska5092]

Amazing

[@Capybarapotato9]

Extension to the list: sunflower and gooseberry 😉

[@nalasimba]

Powidła is prune jam! Prunes are dried plums!

[@schlomoubermann]

Poziomki rządzą!

[@erikajasinski4633]

You forgot gooseberries - I love them

[@o0julek0o]

You should mention that the abundance of fruit explains many people making different fruit moonshines.

[@donpindol778]

And strong home brew wines

[@markg1531]

You have a great kid!

[@Bartek-zz9rk]

If you have an opportunity, try also white an red gooseberry :) Greetings from Kraków ;)

[@azminek7154]

I'd love to see something about Polish castles.

[@qzenek1]

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[@jetblack748]

I'm coming to Poland in June I will find this place and pick all this fruit lol. It looks like a wild fruit lover paradise:)

[@anic131313]

how was it? :D

[@jetblack748]

@@anic131313 it was better than I expected. Next time I'm going in july

[@anic131313]

@@jetblack748 I have birthday in July :D Where did you stay in Poland?

[@jetblack748]

@@anic131313 Warsaw Hotel ibis friends mazury my mum krakow wroclaw Berlin praque all hotels. The best food in Poland milk bars. Home cooking

[@jetblack748]

It was cold in June and July I only had couple of hot days which I spend on the bus no aircon. Disaster my son sick. So I didn't even get a chance to swim. I swim in zakopane in hot pools. Outside 12 degrees in summer.

[@mattzadworny]

agrest jam is perfect with pancakes

[@BuschCola]

Renklody najlepsze a kompot z nich jak smakuje

[@piotrhobbysta5614]

I see that Polish "poziomki" and "truskawki" (altough very different fruits) are translated into English as "strawberries"

[@200010michal]

Truskawka to tak naprawde genetycznie zmodyfikowana pioziomka. Powstala ona w XVIII wieku we Francjii na polecenie Ludwika juz nie pamietam ktorego, ktory kochal jesc poziomki, ale chcial aby byly wieksze.

[@podunkman2709]

We are Apple Empire :-) I love your T-shirt.

[@michak8029]

You missed elderberry, used in Poland to make jams and juice. It's great, but can't be eaten raw, so watch out and don't try to taste it raw. It's quite everywhere but most of people don't even know what to do with it. Only old people still use it, it seems to be forgotten by new generations...

[@domingocabrera212]

how I wish is to saw it with my eyes . .

[@Bartwariat]

Add 50 ml of quince sirup to 0,5l of vodka. Can drink without "zapitka" or "zagrycha" ;)

[@RRanun]

In my neighborhood there's apples (used to be pears aswell) plums, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Additionally had gooseberries, currant, and strawberries, raspberries and about 8 plum trees in our garden. (now we have only grapes and an old apple tree left)

[@LoveMyPoland]

Sounds like you have some planting to do!

[@platynowa]

Early atumn? We have rose and apples called "zimówki" that you harvest after first frosts.

[@martinjiranek5915]

Great movie, I've recently found quite interesting that very few people were aware of agrest. Is it popular in the US?

[@LoveMyPoland]

Martin Jiranek it exists but not popular. At least not in the South :-)

[@martinjiranek5915]

Thanks, glad to hear that you're enjoying Poland, ignore trolls in the comment section, they're everywhere these days.

[@pidzamapornoo]

It Is!

[@gtggj6851]

I think that many Poles will start to envy you the place where you live.

[@krzysztofkruszewski1394]

You should end up your video with smash that thumbs up

[@dagmarabiernat2783]

Oh, lucky you! So much kind of fruit near the house... It isn't everywhere in Poland.I mean, I can't even imagine so much wild fruit in, for example, Warsaw. I have some apple tree in my garden and some grapevine on balcony, they are DELICIOUS, but, unfortunately, I don't know what variety they are... I have a walnut tree, too :D This year there are TONS of fruit and nuts in our garden! One of my granmas has a small garden, too, not near house, but in another place not so far, she has an apple tree, too, andpear tree... And a green gooseberry, too. And some kind of vegetables :D Blueberries, oh yeah, as kids, we used to walk to the forest and collected blueberries, and we ate them with sugar or sugar and cream later. Once (or I just remember only one time it happend) our granma made some pierogi with blueberries we collected. MMmmmmmmmmmm!!! Yummy!! We sometimes found some wild strawberries (which we called "poziomki") too, and I totally agree with you, that there are NEVER enough of them!

[@makrauchenia1]

You can find almost everything in Warsaw too if you know where to look for. There is a huge playground by AWF and there are apples (two kinds), plums, apricots, cherries and walnuts. There are raspberries and blackberries by the river. And of course I don't know all fruit places.

[@dagmarabiernat2783]

@@makrauchenia1 Really??! Woah~!!

[@makrauchenia1]

@@dagmarabiernat2783 That's true! You can check in the summertime :)

[@dagmarabiernat2783]

@@makrauchenia1 Well, maybe I will :D Thanks!

[@grzesieeeeeeeek]

U have close to Polish castles, U saw the Ogrodzieniec maybe? U like it?

[@LoveMyPoland]

grzesieeeeeeeek love Ogrodzieniec! Poziom 511 is a great restaurant too!

[@grzesieeeeeeeek]

hahahha I talk about pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamek_Ogrodzieniec ,nice chanel,I wish luck!!!

[@maciejszymanski2386]

Consider film about wild mashrooms picking, which is our national passion. For us they are real mashrooms. We do not even call "pieczarki" mashrooms. Remember: every mashoom is edible but some of them only once in lifetime.

[@LoveMyPoland]

By Monday it's coming ;-)

[@krise1958]

Mieszkam w USA zgadzam sie z toba w 100%Polska wies jest najpekniejsza .

[@jacekpuszko8764]

POZIOMKI wild strawberries mmmm

[@paulinatyborowska7545]

Topic suggestion: Miths about Poland, true or false.

[@albertgonyora9881]

Hie buddy moving to Lublin in tha next 10 days ,jus a heads up on food please ..which grocery stores to shop that are very affordable

[@erikajasinski4633]

Also grapes

[@nonperson22]

"Poland is an apples superpower" :D I speak polish. What's your superpower ? :P :P :D :D

[@ataksnajpera]

Pfuu. Hungarian language is even more difficult.

[@nonperson22]

@Atak Snajpera and ???

[@AdamKrukowski]

Żart z "I speak polish".. serio..

[@nonperson22]

Nie wiem skad ale dobry. Przypomnial mi sie jak prowadzacy powiedzial o tych jabłkach-superpower.

[@AdamKrukowski]

No nie, to nie jest dobry żart. Poziom poniżej gimnazjum.

[@bialynia]

Just remember that both aronia and quince are better not consumed raw :)

[@rafaljankowski2807]

So where do you live exactly? I'm moving next door. Also you should mention plethora of apple cultivars. Shame that back in US just a few are sold in the stores. I miss papierowka

[@LoveMyPoland]

Częstochowa suburbs

[@wojstube9359]

Co z agrestem? ;) PS. świetne polo!

[@LoveMyPoland]

wojstube nie mogłem znaleźć agrest/gooseberries :-(

[@wojstube9359]

Love My Poland! Just asked ;) We have a few bushes of gooseberry at my wife parent's house. I like it in kompot.

[@Al1en_boy_USA]

I was in Poland and Igor nice little sliwka tree which I took with me to US but in airport they confiscated and I have to pay fine 150$ I guess no sliwka tree in my garden 🤣🤐👍

[@LoveMyPoland]

Yeah, they'll getcha !

[@sanshinron]

Technically these are bilberries, not blueberries. In some parts of the US they call them huckleberries.

[@LoveMyPoland]

sanshinron Right!

[@maciejszymanski2386]

Love My Poland! No! Bilberries - borówki, blueberries - jagody. We distinguish them. Same for "cherries" - the sweet ones we call "czereśnie", the sour - "wiśnie". And they completely different species for us.

[@konradkotlarczyk7290]

​@@maciejszymanski2386 the problem is that the word "jagoda" is usually missused/used improperly/has a regional-local meaning. "Jagoda" simply means "berry". Accually many fruit that we wouldent think of as berries are in fact berries - for example watermelons. What you ment is sometimes called "czarna jagoda" known by its proper Polish name "borówka czarna". To make it more complicated in some regions (Podbeskidzie) "borówka czarna" - (that is bilberry/huckelberry/blueberry) is simply called "borówka", while in other regions (most of Poland as far as i know) "borówka" means "borówka brusznica" (lingonberry, partridgeberry or cowberry) which is red and is a differednt subspecies. Also in some regions (Podkarpacie) the word "jagoda" means "borówka czarna" - that is blueberry. Maybe thats where you got that idea from.

[@sielec1987]

Forgot about Agrest 🤣

[@dzejms8868]

So Poland produces more than 50% of black currant worldwide that's a fact ;)

[@LoveMyPoland]

Wow!

[@tkg__]

That's simply not true. Poland is responsible for around 25% of world production. With Russia producing around 60%. Source: Tridge report. www.tridge.com/intelligences/blackcurrant/production

[@honeybadger8942]

If you can find that much fruit trees in the wild,I must say that nature is quite preserved in your country. I mean no wild uprooting of trees and forests. Let your children eat the fruit in their natural state. If you can,buy a few acres of land to grow your own fruit and vegetables.

[@caracal82]

Hey Russ how do you like Gooseberries :D? Do you find them near your house as well? AGREST

[@LoveMyPoland]

Love them! Sadly we don't grow them nor does anyone nearby. 😔. But they are delicious 😋

[@willtaylor7123]

How difficult would it be, as an English speaker, to take a vacation to Poland?

[@LoveMyPoland]

In my opinion, not difficult at all. Come on over!